In the first battle against the Beast Race Alliance, our side successfully captured 35,628 Beast Race soldiers. At present, those soldiers were being closely guarded by the Wild Boar warriors.
More than 95% of those 35,628 Beast Race soldiers were wounded. If the Beast Race side redeemed them, the subsequent medical treatment and disability benefits would be an enormous expense.
The Beast Race Alliance was divided into two factions: the bureaucrats and the military. The bureaucratic faction was headed by Alliance Leader Toin. During peacetime, it controlled the lifelines of the economy, resources, and taxation, giving it greater power.
The Alliance military was headed by Alliance Marshal He. He and Alliance Leader Toin had once been rivals, but after the previous defeat, he could only take second place within the Beast Race Alliance.
In terms of his contributions to the Beast Race Alliance, He should have become its leader after the war. Unfortunately, he had trusted the wrong person.
The current situation was that Alliance Leader Toin had no intention of redeeming the more than 30,000 prisoners held by Su Xiao's side. They had made contact, but their attitude was extremely overbearing, ordering Su Xiao to release all the prisoners within two days. Otherwise, the Beast Race Alliance would launch a brutal retaliation.
That could be treated as nothing more than hot air. At this point, an inevitable death match with the Beast Race had already become the only possible outcome.
In contrast, Alliance Marshal He urgently wanted to redeem the prisoners. First, the unit known as Warhammer had once been under his command, so he ought to look after them. Otherwise, the other Alliance units would lose heart.
Second, he intended to use this matter to make an issue of things, suppress Alliance Leader Toin's faction, and once again